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===Additional=== Other epithets included: *'''agonios''', as president of games.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da)gw%2Fnios1 agonios]</ref> * '''akaketos''' "without guile", "gracious", an Homeric epithet. * '''chthonius''' – at the festival Athenia ''Chytri'' sacrifices are made to this visage of the god only.<ref>Aristophanes, [https://archive.org/details/frogsaristophan02arisgoog/page/n383 <!-- pg=247 quote=Hermes Chthonius. --> The Frogs of Aristophanes, with Notes and Critical and Explanatory, Adapted to the Use of Schools and Universities, by T. Mitchell], John Murray, 1839.</ref><ref>GS Shrimpton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1tRf3DQycDEC&dq=Hermes+Chthonius&pg=PA264 Theopompus The Historian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430003041/https://books.google.com/books?id=1tRf3DQycDEC&dq=Hermes+Chthonius&pg=PA264 |date=30 April 2023 }}, McGill-Queens, 1991.</ref> * '''dotor Eaon''' (δώτωρ εάων), giver of good things," an Homeric epithet.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Ddw%2Ftwr dotor eaon]</ref> *'''eriboas''', loud shouting <ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De)ribo%2Fas eriboas]</ref> *'''enagonios''', presiding over the games.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De)nagw%2Fnios enagonios]</ref> *'''eriounis''', an Homeric epithet with uncertain meaning. Probably helper or bringer of good luck.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134:book=20:card=30 Iliad 20.30]</ref> *'''eriounios''', an Homeric epithet with uncertain meaning. According to Hesychius: oùnei, deṹro, dràme. The Arcadians also oùnon, the Cypriots drómon.<ref name="ounei"/> This intepretetion relates the epithet to "move quickly".<ref>C.M.Bowra, JHS.LIV, 1934, p.68: Nilsson, Vol. I, p.501, A2</ref> * '''koinos''', fellowship, communion, partnership <ref>RA Bauslaugh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IKiDIz7EWaoC&dq=hermes+Koinos&pg=PA37 The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430003039/https://books.google.com/books?id=IKiDIz7EWaoC&dq=hermes+Koinos&pg=PA37 |date=30 April 2023 }}, University of California Press, 1991, {{ISBN|0-520-06687-1}}.</ref> *'''kynagches''', dog throttler<ref name="Liddel Scott"/> * '''ploutodotes''', giver of wealth (as inventor of fire)<ref>Fiske 1865.</ref> * '''promachos''', champion.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D22%3Asection%3D1 Pausanias 9.22.1]</ref> * '''proopylaios''', "before the gate", "guardian of the gate";<ref>CO Edwardson (2011), ''Women and Philanthropy, tricksters and soul: re-storying otherness into crossroads of change'', Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010, p. 60.</ref> ''Pylaios'', "doorkeeper"<ref>The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies: Ithaca August 2009, Conference Paper, page 12 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gHHkuzal164J:www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%2520Society/e-journal/Volume-6/Fidyk-2010.pdf+&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi0SCCwioHlGLBZ7mz3yH4BJst86sZ2b3WiJujr6ZMZJz9UvApI84fyJgK5nd9Xvn-Lxm_Tt7Pz3dka1C0vEqER_vSxnps3-V4BZx6qGnruaKNZwpl5m8zs2v45T8eWN3vO3W-j&sig=AHIEtbR4is9-5V1NTob8qGnfkoU71aFlIg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010015232/https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gHHkuzal164J:www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%2520Society/e-journal/Volume-6/Fidyk-2010.pdf+&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi0SCCwioHlGLBZ7mz3yH4BJst86sZ2b3WiJujr6ZMZJz9UvApI84fyJgK5nd9Xvn-Lxm_Tt7Pz3dka1C0vEqER_vSxnps3-V4BZx6qGnruaKNZwpl5m8zs2v45T8eWN3vO3W-j&sig=AHIEtbR4is9-5V1NTob8qGnfkoU71aFlIg|date=10 October 2013}}.</ref> * '''sokos''' (σώκος), the strong one, an Homeric epithet.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dsw%3Dkos sokos]</ref> * '''stropheus''',<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dstrofai%3Dos Lidell Scott]</ref>"the socket in which the pivot of the door moves" ([[Karl Kerényi|Kerényi]] in Edwardson) or "door-hinge". Protector of the door (that is the boundary), to the temple<ref name="lang" /><ref name="Roman Roman 2010">{{cite book|author1=Luke Roman|author2=Monica Roman|title=Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOgWfjNIxoMC&pg=PT232|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2639-5|pages=232ff}}</ref><ref>Sourced originally in R Davis-Floyd, P Sven Arvidson (1997).</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Raffaele Pettazzoni|title=The All-knowing God|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165|year=1956|publisher=Arno Press|isbn=978-0-405-10559-3|page=165}}</ref><ref>CS Wright, J Bolton Holloway, RJ Schoeck – ''Tales within tales: Apuleius through time'', AMS Press, 2000, p. 23.</ref>
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